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The independent candidate case by the African court of human and peoples' rights revisited

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dc.creator Makulilo, Alexander B.
dc.date 2020-03-19T09:03:58Z
dc.date 2020-03-19T09:03:58Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T12:01:02Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T12:01:02Z
dc.identifier Makulilo, A. B. (2017). The independent candidate case by the African court of human and peoples' rights revisited. International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 5(2), 130-143.
dc.identifier 2050-1048
dc.identifier 10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.088719
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2201
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2201
dc.description Abstract. Full article is available at: https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.088719
dc.description In June 2011, the Tanganyika Law Society, the Legal and Human Rights Centre and Rev. Christopher Mtikila filed in the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights applications instituting proceedings against the government of the United Republic of Tanzania claiming that the government had, through certain amendments to its Constitution, violated its citizens' right of freedom of association, the right to participate in public affairs and the right against discrimination by prohibiting independent candidates to contest Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government elections. In its judgment of 14 June 2013, the Court found that the government violated Articles 2, 3, 10 and 13 (1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The Court directed the government to take constitutional, legislative and all other necessary measures within a reasonable time to remedy the observed violations. This article revisits this case to understand the reluctance by the government towards independent candidates.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Inderscience Publishers
dc.subject Independent candidates
dc.subject Constitutionalism
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Africa
dc.subject Mtikila
dc.subject Human rights
dc.subject African court
dc.subject Election
dc.subject Tanganyika law society
dc.subject Multiparty democracy
dc.subject Legal rights
dc.title The independent candidate case by the African court of human and peoples' rights revisited
dc.type Article


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